I agree with most of what you think should be done, but disagree about CoB's only being able to mark a post for deletion. I want them to be able to do the deletions. The other things you've suggested actually are on my "to-do" list and I expect to be working on them shortly after I gain access to the system, which I don't have yet. At this point I still don't know when I'll have it and I'm champing at the bit to start banging out code and get it implemented.
The vast majority of deletions in the past few weeks have been deletions I've agreed with and would've done myself. Where I didn't agree with them, I restored them and spoke with the directors of those boards. Some have disagreed with me, but all who are still chairing those particular boards have at least been complying with my wishes on deletions.
For the scenario you give, at least an equally bad scenario can be described for posts not getting deleted until I can get to them.
Here are my current plans for the CoB feature in order of anticipated implementation. The first 3 have been in the programmer's hands for a while and the rest are awaiting completion of the first 3 and my having the necessary access to write them myself:
1. Post removal requiring selection from a drop-down list of valid reasons for removing the post. This list includes items like "spam", "dupe", "privacy", "copyright", and "personal attack".
2. When I'm viewing deletions, I want to see the reason, the alias of the person who did the deletion, and the date of the deletion.
3. Show me deletions in reverse order on deletion date rather than reverse order on post date.
4. Revision of text displayed in Terms of Use and Board Manager How-to.
5. Insertion of the reason for deletion into the "This message has been removed..." message.
6. Automated PMing of the deleted text, deleter (word?) alias, and deletion reason to the author of the post.
7. Detailed reporting of deletion stats, including who is getting deleted the most and who is doing the most deletions.
I won't typically show my hand to this extent, as I prefer not to get too detailed about the what and when of upcoming changes or lead people to believe something is "soon" at a time when I honestly can't vouch for that, but I hope this will clear up some of the questions about the status of the CoB feature.
Regards,
HuBob
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